Monday, May 18, 2009

Procrastination: It should be my middle name

Whenever I am truly overwhelmed with something, I tend to avoid it as much as possible. Instead, I invent projects for myself that absolutely must be done right now. You know, the kind of things that really could wait years to be done and nobody would notice. I suppose it's my way of feeling productive, yet not being productive at all.

This weekend, in an effort to work on move preparation I:

♥ Designed a new header for my photography blog. (Thanks Rae, for the inspiration!)♥ Figured out how to have a cool font on my blog post titles.♥ Helped Joel with a few projects that he could easily have done by himself.♥ Weeded my front lawn.♥ Watched the opera Hansel and Gretel with my girls.♥ Read Spires of Stone by Annette Lyon and Extras by Scott Westerfeld.♥ Designed a new header for my mom's blog.♥ Designed a new header for Jill's blog, which I have owed her for a very long time.♥ Did ten loads of laundry, and cut a deal with Joel that stipulates that he fold all ten loads for me.♥ Caught up on a lot of emails that I have been ignoring the past month.♥ Cleaned out the toys and clothes in Sophia's room, and filled four boxes with items to be sold at a future garage sale.♥ Added a bunch of photos to my photography blog, and took down a bunch more.♥ Put all 500+ CD's that we own into an empty dresser, so that the CD holder thingies can also be sold in aforementioned garage sale.♥ Went through my clothing and filled one box with clothes I will never wear again.♥ Made several lists of things that should be done soon.♥ Read and commented on a bunch of blogs.♥ Wrote blogs for the rest of this week and set them to post.

There. I accomplished a little bit of move prep, and a whole lot of nothing.

Lara Neves

Lara is mom to three daughters—two teens and a tween. She loves to share her parenting and homemaking triumphs and failures here at Overstuffed! She was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2015 and has been fighting it ever since. When she isn't working on her mother of the year award, you can find her reading, singing, or taking photos.

Sounds like you never sleep! And thanks for the link to the Blog title fonts. I actually was messing around w/the CBOTB fonts, but they ended up with the title being teeny-weeny, so I deleted it. Thanks so much!:~D

I'm the same way, but I usually only get as far as pulling everything out of a closet before the baby starts crying or something else distracts me. Then I curse myself for making a bigger mess on top of the mess I should have been cleaning.

Looks like a good list of accomplishments to me. I do the same thing. If I have too much to do, I do anything but what I need to really get done. The list of things I do is never that impressive, though.

Can I just say, I think that I have almost everything in common with you! I so wish that we lived closer together, so we could get together more often. Yeah - procrastination is my middle name, too. My bedroom also looks like a mine field, and I haven't commented on your blog for so long because I wouldn't let myself get on the internet all last week and this week in an attempt to get my house clean. It still isn't clean. Sigh... maybe next week!